Sophia Simensky (Essex, England, 1990) takes an archaeological approach to shifting landscapes—collapsing histories into non-linear narratives which judder together in the present. St Anthony‘s Wilderness is a battlefield of allegorical fragments and poetic texts which spring from the marred landscape of Northeastern Pennsylvania and it‘s colonial and extractive past. Travelling through the abandoned coal towns and cloisters, through the fields of bluets and corn, the Blue Mountain and it‘s sister ridges remain fixed points on the horizon. The mountains and valleys are littered with narrative fragments, which not only reveal a picture of the past, but speak to the present and colour it. Fragments found in the names of plants and places and blemishes left by industry.